re: Kendrick Lamar...The next household name

Sorry, can't do that. I've got to expose Aubrey for what he is (which is trash).

This album is very good. I'd go 8 or 9 out of 10. Best hip hop album of the last 15 to 20 years is a bit much though. A lot of great albums have come out in the past 15 to 20 years (including my personal favorite Aquemini). I could get behind best of the past 5 years though. There's been a dearth of great hip hop albums over the past few years IMO.

...among others. I don't think it's in that top tier (or top 2 tiers however you want to dice it up). It's as good or better than anything that has come out recently though. We'll see how history remembers it, I suppose.

It's the best album in recent memory, certainly the best this year. Time will tell where it stacks up all-time, but like I said, it just gives me the feeling that I'm listening to something important. iTunes tells me that I've listened to it 7 times already. To put that in perspective, The College Dropout and Carter I are the 2 rap albums I've listened to the most in my iTunes. I've listened to them 16 and 13 times, respectively, and they've been in my iTunes for years. I absolutely hate listening to albums over and over, it's one of my pet peeves actually. Yet I literally cannot stop playing this one.

re: Kendrick Lamar...The next household name(Posted by Retro on 10/23/12 at 11:45 pm to LSUSOBEAST1)

KENDRICK.IS.A.GENIUS.

quote:I wasn’t sure where was the best place to put this but here is my theory for the overall story of the album. The timeline isn’t 100% sequential:

Tracks 1-11 are set when Kendrick is around 17/18

First half of Track 1 — Sets the scene of his relationship with Sherane, this goes on over the course of a few months

Tracks 2-6 — Really just sets the scene of Kendrick’s life in Compton and him hanging with “the homies”. Seens to happen over the course of an afternoon — his friends pick him up, they freestyle, they screw around for a while and think they are awesome

Last verse of Track 1 — Kendrick heads over to Sherane’s house

Track 6 — I think this track represents Kendrick’s thoughts on his way over to Sherane’s house, which is why it ends so abruptly and changes in tone as it heads into the skit Skit at the end of Track 6 — Kendrick gets jumped by the two guys in hoodies for being in their hood

Tracks 7 & 8 are covering his thoughts on getting jumped

Track 9 — Goes back to the homies and they get messed up

Skit/Track 10 — They go back to shoot the guys that jumped Kendrick, but one of the homies ends up getting killed

Track 11 — Kendrick regrets getting dragged down by the m.A.A.d city and vows to get out of it and inspire others to do the same

Track 12 — This is Kendrick achieving his goal and is set in the present IMO Skit — “I’ll be back in 15 minutes” — a throwback to the very start of the album — having seen how things unfold it adds extra power to this